"It just really makes me just really upset," she continued. "So I really hope people know — like, I couldn't fake it. You know, my grandma's sitting here and my mom's here and I go home to my seven dogs and if I didn't have that anymore, it'd just be really hard."

"I'm really happy to help any way that I can and I hope people understand they can put themselves in those people's shoes and just know what it feels like to have everything taken away from you," she said.

DeGeneres, too, has pledged $50,000 of her money to help flood victims, and on her show she presented a check for $1 million, courtesy of Walmart, to pro football player J.J. Watt's fundraising initiative, which has now raised more than $10 million. (Walmart, said DeGeneres, "is on track to donate over $20 million in cash and supplies to Hurricane Harvey relief.")